Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, (as illustrated and improv'd by Robert of Brunne) from the death of Cadwalader to the end of K. Edward the First's reign. Transcrib'd, and now first publish'd, from a ms. in the Inner-Temple Library by Thomas Hearne, M.A. To which are added, besides a glossary and other curious papers, (1) A roll concerning Glastonbury abbey, being a survey of all the estates belonging to that house at the dissolution, taken by King Hen. the Eigth's order and for his use. (2) An account of the hospital of St. Mary Magdalen near Scroby in Nottinghamshire, by John Slacke, master of that hospital. (3) Two tracts by an anonymous author; the first relating to Roman antiquities, near Conquest in Somersetshire, the second concerning Stonehenge. Oxford, Printed at the Theater, 1725.

                                
                                  Ros in Northumberland suilk a sorow hard,
                                
                                   [Sic.] Malcolcolme ȝede robband, & his sonne Edward.
                                
                                  þat herd an erle Roberd, he ȝared him to bataile
                                
                                  With Malcolme & Edward, he gan þam assaile.
                                
                                  þat bataile was hard, fo men has no frith,
                                
                                  Slayn was þat coward, & his sonne him with.
                                
                                  ¶ þe folk that ascaped on Malcolme side,
                                
                                  To Scotland þam raped, & puplised it fulle wide.
                                
                                  þei mad parlement, & toke þam to rede.
                                
                                  Malcolme to God was went, & Edward his sonne dede,
                                
                                  & corouned Dufoald, Sir Malcolme broþer.
                                
                                  His sonnes þei ne wald, þe ton no þe toþer.
                                
                                  ¶ Of Malcome þat man left tuo sonnes ware, [De contu|melia Scot|torum, & de dominio & potestate Angliæ.] 
                                
                                  þe ton hight Dunkan, þe toþer Edgare.
                                
                                  Dunkan sauh his eam had his heritage,
                                
                                  þer he wist bote of beam, he went þat viage
                                
                                  To William þe rede kyng, þer he was in Wales.
                                
                                  What tid of þat þing, he told him alle þe tales.
                                
                                  "Myn heritage I craue of þe, þat is my heued.
                                
                                  "Help me it to haue, þat Dufnald has me reued.
                                
                                  With scrite vnto William Sir Dunkan him bond,
                                
                                  & to þe heirs þat of him cam, for þe coroune of Scotlond.
                                
                                  Inglis & Normans þe kyng did somoune,
                                
                                  To wend with Sir Dunkan, & do Dufnald doune,
                                
                                  & seise Dunkan þer in, als heyr of heritage,
                                
                                  To hold & alle his kyn of Inglond for homage.
                                
                                  Whan corouned was Dunkan, & þe fest ent,
                                
                                  Inglis & Norman to kyng William went.

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Title: Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, (as illustrated and improv'd by Robert of Brunne) from the death of Cadwalader to the end of K. Edward the First's reign. Transcrib'd, and now first publish'd, from a ms. in the Inner-Temple Library by Thomas Hearne, M.A. To which are added, besides a glossary and other curious papers, (1) A roll concerning Glastonbury abbey, being a survey of all the estates belonging to that house at the dissolution, taken by King Hen. the Eigth's order and for his use. (2) An account of the hospital of St. Mary Magdalen near Scroby in Nottinghamshire, by John Slacke, master of that hospital. (3) Two tracts by an anonymous author; the first relating to Roman antiquities, near Conquest in Somersetshire, the second concerning Stonehenge. Oxford, Printed at the Theater, 1725.
Author: Peter, of Langtoft, d. 1307?
Canvas: Page 90
Publication: [Reprinted for S. Bagster, in the Strand,; 1810]
Subject terms: Great Britain -- History; Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman; Scrooby, Eng.; Stonehenge (England); Glastonbury Abbey.

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